I must first start out by apologizing profusely for the lack of bloggage lately. RL has dared interfere with my Katat0nik clothing obsession! But, I’m happy to spam the ‘feed to make up for it over the next few days.

And why not start with a Shirley Temple song and one of Kat’s latest releases, Animal Crackers? After Katat0nik got loads of positive feedback about how cute the unicorns on her Making Memories dress were (unicorn smexing aside!), she was inspired to do an animal-themed suite of fun, casual dresses. The menagerie includes a panda, flamingo, two giraffes, a monkey, and a zebra!

I love the diversity of animal choices, and being quite the panda enthusiast, I couldn’t help but embrace my inner sad panda and shoot a picture with “Panda Gecko.”

The "Panda" Animal Crackers Dress!

I continued embracing my inner animal (In the artsy avatar sense…not the boom chicka wow wow sense! I swear!) and eventually tracked down a flamingo in SL to imitate! (Poor GG trekked with me to about 40 safari-themed sims and we finally stumbled upon this gentleman of a flamingo by accident. Thanks for the picture taking, GG! And hopefully I’ll get that Toto song out of my head soon…)

Adaire embraces her inner flamingo!

I love how there is an empire waist style skirt and an adorable miniskirt included, giving two different looks with just one outfit. Check out all the different color options!

This was a fun way for me to explore making my avatar a little “hybrid” without going the usual Neko route. And…we’d love to see you embrace your inner animal and post your picture to Katat0nik’s Flickr Group!

The “Animal Crackers” Flickr Contest!

Kat and I cooked up a very informal but hopefully fun Katat0nik Flickr Group contest with the Animal Crackers dresses, but with a killer prize! Embrace your own inner animal with one of Katat0nik’s Animal Crackers dresses and snap a pic! Monkey around, frolic with zebras…use your own imagination and have fun! Three winners will receive the entire collection of Animal Crackers dresses…and…

Drum roll, please!!

An EXCLUSIVE color of the Animal Crackers dress that will ONLY be given to the winners! A Katat0nik collectible!! Le gaspe!!

To get an idea of what we’re looking for, you can check out the pictures I took for this blog entry, but you are in no way limited to having to create a hybrid avatar or coercing your boyfriend to be a panda tiny, rofl. Get your creative juices flowing – we can’t wait to see what you come up with!

A few details:* We’re looking for the most creative submissions, not who pwns Photoshop the bestes evaht. Feel free to edit your pictures and such, but if you’re anything like me and fear the Photoshop, PLEASE still enter! This is a chance to cut loose and have some fun goofing off without having to worry about being a Photoshop wiz.* You can submit up to three pictures to the Katat0nik Flickr Group. The deadline is April 25th at 11:59 PM SL!* I’m sure it goes without saying, but have fun, be zany…but don’t be yucky with explicit stuffs. Le horror!* If you have any questions, im Adaire DeCuir in-world, Plurk here, or e-mail at adaire.decuir@gmail.com. (Hit me up instead of Kat so she can keep cranking out the pretties!)

Katat0nik Pidgeon

Hi! I'm a RL artist and a designer of clothes, shoes, skins, hair, tattoos, dolls, and other stuff for the Second Life® virtual world. Visit Axis Mundi to see my work and check out the Katat0nik Flickr group!